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How popular is “Kristan” in the USA?

Number of people named “Kristan” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Kristan” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Kristan” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Kristan” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Kristan” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Kristan” by birth year

This chart shows how “Kristan” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1945 17 0.000006408 17 100%
1946 11 0.000003443 11 100%
1947 14 0.000003886 14 100%
1948 12 0.000003476 12 100%
1949 10 0.00000287 10 100%
1950 8 0.000002284 8 100%
1951 18 0.000004886 18 100%
1952 29 0.000007636 24 5 66%
1953 13 0.000003373 13 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 100%
1955 15 0.000003736 15 100%
1956 10 0.000002425 10 100%
1957 12 0.000002856 12 100%
1958 50 0.000012095 45 5 80%
1959 39 0.00000938 32 7 64%
1960 43 0.000010352 37 6 72%
1961 42 0.000010139 34 8 62%
1962 40 0.000009912 30 10 50%
1963 49 0.000012379 44 5 80%
1964 62 0.000015948 62 100%
1965 72 0.00001986 65 7 81%
1966 72 0.000020716 64 8 78%
1967 106 0.000031223 97 9 83%
1968 107 0.000031672 100 7 87%
1969 125 0.000035968 110 15 76%
1970 147 0.00004076 136 11 85%
1971 141 0.00004108 124 17 76%
1972 121 0.000038498 108 13 79%
1973 124 0.000041102 109 15 76%
1974 125 0.000041118 113 12 81%
1975 123 0.000040737 99 24 61%
1976 88 0.000029002 73 15 66%
1977 97 0.000030537 81 16 67%
1978 110 0.000034658 92 18 67%
1979 152 0.000045687 126 26 66%
1980 220 0.00006387 205 15 86%
1981 213 0.000061572 202 11 90%
1982 236 0.000067276 223 13 89%
1983 195 0.000056304 183 12 88%
1984 224 0.000064206 206 18 84%
1985 256 0.000071727 242 14 89%
1986 233 0.000065503 223 10 91%
1987 204 0.000056578 192 12 88%
1988 204 0.000055209 192 12 88%
1989 224 0.000058266 210 14 88%
1990 206 0.000052119 196 10 90%
1991 174 0.00004467 165 9 90%
1992 148 0.000038529 136 12 84%
1993 135 0.000035806 126 9 87%
1994 146 0.000039272 136 10 86%
1995 142 0.000038775 127 15 79%
1996 130 0.000035644 123 7 89%
1997 80 0.000022064 68 12 70%
1998 70 0.000019031 61 9 74%
1999 50 0.000013536 43 7 72%
2000 71 0.000018784 62 9 75%
2001 42 0.00001122 37 5 76%
2002 36 0.00000963 29 7 61%
2003 35 0.000009205 25 10 43%
2004 29 0.00000759 21 8 45%
2005 35 0.000009103 23 12 31%
2006 25 0.000006319 17 8 36%
2007 32 0.000008005 23 9 44%
2008 28 0.000007123 17 11 21%
2009 20 0.000005235 12 8 20%
2010 18 0.00000487 12 6 33%
2011 15 0.000004101 9 6 20%
2012 9 0.000002461 9 100%
2013 7 0.00000192 7 100%
2014 10 0.000002698 10 -100%
2015 17 0.000004593 8 9 -6%
2016 19 0.000005179 8 11 -16%
2017 16 0.000004474 10 6 25%
2018 8 0.000002275 8 -100%
2019 11 0.000003169 5 6 -9%
2020 6 0.000001796 6 -100%

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